pretty_ana's_mom's blog post - Back to the Drawing Board

Liking the change of member ID. Actually what seemed foolish at first was actually the right decision. And to Mont26 and 2knude, many thanks for picking me back up. And many hugs for your readership. You guys can never throw me too many bones.

Hard and difficult week, but physical work is over for at least for a few weeks. Lucky me now I get to dive into financial issues (namely time to play the balance transfer game again), and also time to nail down all documents for my disability hearing in late August.

Feeling not nearly as well as I would wish, however, hanging in. I've managed to do some cardio work for the last 6 weeks, and I have to say I'm very proud of myself. Cause God knows I didn't want to it. Tried a new venture just this evening. I read that alternating hot and cold water showers is somehow (goodness knows how!!) good for you. Gave it the first try this evening, and certainly nothing dramatic to report. However it was much more tolerable than I had imagined. So since it's cheap, I'll keep trying.

Gratefully I'm back on the health care advocacy trail once again. Preparing some excellent things for future blogs, so I do hope that my issues will get some notice. For the longest time I debated in my head if this was the best forum for me to chronicle health issues; however, have finally come the conclusion that it just has to be. I honestly don't want to blog on say a Lyme blog because dammit!!...they are a bunch of sick people!! They get really entrenched in things like clinical analysis of pharmaceuticals, fighting back and forth over vague European studies of supplements...yada yada yada. And though I try to be the best informed that I can be, I'm starting to realize that someway I have to learn to live life on my terms. Not with the sick, but with the living. I have been fortunate enough to find a place with savvy, intelligent, and independent thinkers who seem to know the true meaning of community. Therefore, I'm staying put. And I'm gonna do what I can to protect the ones I love.